Online Games - The Evolution

Now we see thousands of people playing online games such as tetris, ping pong, mario bros, super mario etc for free but despite its history dating back to 1970s, for most people online gaming began with the explosion of Internet in 1993 and with the advent of Doom and Warcraft sometime in 1994 or 1995. This got further boost with publishers starting to add Internet connectivity to computer games in 1994-95.

The media, in fact, have themselves been ignorant about online games history. As far as they are concerned, online gaming just coincidentally happened when their advertisers started producing Internet-capable games. But it isn't so...

Early Years of development

In early 1950's a college student created a game much like Tic-Tac-Toe for a class project to be played on dinosaur computers of those days complete with cathode ray tubes for the screen display. The 1960's had MIT students programming a game called "Space war" that could be played with two people over a primitive network. The late 1960's brought the first "real" video games like table tennis and shooter games.

The 70s - the game begins

Serious online gaming began with the first interactive online game called ADVENT. In fact networked gaming got conceptualized with ADVENT. Networked gaming had users playing against each other within an online fantasy world. The first networked game was called Mazewar, a game which involved networked players traveling through a maze and attempting to kill one another.

Next came the interpersonal interaction in a multi-player environment. The first such game was called DUNGEN. DUNGEN had players competing against one another to complete a series of quests. DUNGEN provided with new settings and players each time the user logged on.

The late 1970's saw the start of video game craze with more and more households getting computer savvy. As a natural corollary, people started writing their own games for the home computers. These programming hobbyists traded and sold these home-grown games in local markets.

Other changes in the 1970's were home gaming consoles which used game cartridges. That meant the people could collect games cartridges for one base unit instead of having bulky game console systems.

The 80s - some pause before the storm

1980's saw growing craze for the video and computer game craze, but online gaming wasn't on the horizon yet. New games with better sound and graphics were introduced and gained popularity. Pole Position and Pac-man were two that achieved big popularity. It was during 1980's when Nintendo introduced its first gaming system.

The 90s - revolution begins

The 1990's saw the phenomenal growth in both popularity and technology mostly because of the rise of 3-D and multimedia.

Myst, the intellectual adventure game introduced gaming on the CD-ROM format. Fancier 3-D graphics hardware made FPS (first person shooter) games such as Quake possible.

The late 1990's saw the exponential growth of the Internet, MUDs (multi-user dungeons) which made online games wildly popular. New and improved graphical interfaces had people all over the world playing against each other not only in FPS games but also in real time strategy games (RTS games) as well as third person games like Grand Theft Auto.

This was also the period when websites started offering online games such as tetris, ping pong, mario bros, super Mario, and other free online flash games and non-flash based games free for playing after registering with them. This really pushed online gaming into the popular psyche.

The 21st Century - world is just a playground

Early years of the 21st century were dominated by the DVD-CD-ROM. It has changed the way online games are played. The latest gaming systems such as Sony's play station and Microsoft's X-box have networking capabilities to enable people play with each other in real time from all over the world. Exponentially growing broadband internet services have made playing these online games possible in true sense of the word.

The only drawback to the constantly evolving technology for online games is that what you buy today might become obsolete by the next year. Luckily, for the serious gamers, the resale industry for these online games is huge. This resale industry is just another element to the ever-changing history of online game.

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The Evolution Of The First-Person Shooter Games

First-Person Shooter or (FPS) is a type of 3D video game that center's the game play around the first person perspective, or put another way, they experience the action through the eyes of their character. FPS differs from Third-Person Shooter (TPS) games in the way the player perceives the action. With TPS, you are able to see the action from the back, allowing the gamer to see the character that they are controlling. Presently, FPS, which falls under the category of action game, is the fastest growing video game genre.

Like most shooter games, FPS involves a character, weapons and a varying amount of enemies (Based on level of difficulty). Also, since these games were created in 3D, they are more realistic and represent sound, collisions and lighting better than 2D shooter games. Most FPS games focus mainly on gameplay, with fast paced and bloody firefights, though some might emphasize storyline, problem solving, puzzles and melee combat, in addition to shooting.

The design for most FPS are level design, which forces the character to defeat a level before moving to the next. Other features are large sandbox environments (Open World Play), which are not divided into levels, enabling the player to explore the environment freely. In first-person shooter, the environment can be altered. Common devices such as barrels (containing explosives) can be shot, killing surrounding enemies. Other games focus on destructive environments adding explosions, falling buildings and crumbling streets to improve visual effects. Science fiction and historic or modern military themes, have often been used. Characters such as Aliens, Terrorists and various types of Soldiers have been used.

Two of the earliest FPS video games were, Maze War and Spasim. Maze War, developed in 1973, featured on foot gameplay where Spasism debut in 1974, was more of a space flight simulator. Both these games took on a first-person perspective. By the 1980's Spasism's combat flight simulator had been so fine tuned that they were able to create a tank simulator called Battlezone. Battlezone was first released in arcades, but in 1983 a version was released for the PC. Since the creation of Maze War and Spasim, FPS games have come a long way. From 1992-1995, games like Wolfenstein 3D, Pac Man and Space Invaders to name a few were created. In 1993, Doom was released adding improved texture, variations in heights (climbing stairs), flashing lights and darkness, to create a more realistic 3D environment. Doom also had competitive multi player games, called Death Matches. At the E3 gameshow in 2000, Bungie overhauled Halo which was a TPS game. Later that year, Microsoft bought Bungie and revamped Halo and released it as a FPS and launched it with the XBOX console.

The FPS games keep getting better as the years go by. They are becoming, more realistic, sound quality has improved, and a variation of story lines now exist. Any serious gamer has to be really excited waiting for the next wave of improvements to the FPS games.

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